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William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir
The author's noirs capture the borough in all its madcap, desperate, violent complexity.
By
Daneet Steffens
| March 3, 2020
How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence
A thriller author shares 7 lessons for writing violence.
By
Ed Ruggero
| March 3, 2020
How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass
Everything you wanted to know about changing diapers and solving fictional murders but were afraid to ask.
By
Jason Pinter
| March 2, 2020
Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write
On growing up in the Bronx, and spinning stories in the basement.
By
Robert Desiderio
| February 28, 2020
Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)
What writing horror (and hearing noises in the night) taught me about the impulse to explore—even in the face of danger.
By
Darcy Coates
| February 27, 2020
How to Turn A Man into a Legend
Why I chose to take real-life Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, drop him in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance, and have him solve a murder.
By
Gary Phillips
| February 25, 2020
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The Life and Work of C.W. Grafton: Crime Novelist, Lawyer, and Father to a Mystery Icon
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L. Wayne Hicks
| February 21, 2020
Two Authors Talk Psychological Thrillers, Motherhood, and Maine
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Mary Kubica
| February 18, 2020
Unreliable Narrators Who Break Every Rule We Thought We Knew
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Michael Seidlinger
| February 17, 2020
The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series
Two authors—working from opposite ends of Florida—bring epic noir series to a close, and live to tell the tale.
By
Steph Post
| February 12, 2020
Worldbuilding: Crime and Fantasy Books Have More in Common Than You Might Think
In noir, as in fantasy, it's all about finding the right details.
By
Kelly Braffet
| February 11, 2020
The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters
Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.
By
Christina McDonald
| February 7, 2020
How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of
Chinatown
The strange, unlikely events in 1969 that set Robert Towne on a course to write one of the greatest films ever made.
By
Sam Wasson
| February 4, 2020
Ten Books Where the Setting Is a Character
From 1950s L.A. to Savannah's iconic squares, these books bring time and place alive in unforgettable ways.
By
Sarah Pinborough
| February 4, 2020
Carl Hiaasen: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
Discover the wild, corrupt, uproarious world of Hiaasen's Florida.
By
Neil Nyren
| January 30, 2020
The Strange Rural Noir of Wilma Dykeman’s
The Tall Woman
Rediscovering A Lost Classic of Mid-Century Literature
By
Chris McGinley
| January 29, 2020
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